It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex,… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back… — Ekaterina Sedia Copy Share Image
I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Being a lawyer, first of all, think creatively. Think, "How can we deal with this particular case in a way we haven't… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
“He pulled her toward him and gathered her in his arms as his hand lovingly cradled the back of her neck. She… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
“Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
“They say that an educated inmate will not reoffend. This is not because an education assures that this guy will get hired… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth'… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“The mettle that it takes to look away from the horror of our prison system, from police forces transformed into armies, from… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls -… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“Eli bought the flat-screen television and sectional couch for Olivia, his mother, after his stint in prison. There’s a throw rug on… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image